• Avoid procrastination!! 
  • Clarify your goals 
  • PLAN AHEAD
  • If you work do not take too many courses to overload yourself! 
  • Make out a schedule and develop a routine 
  • Set up a contract with yourself and work for specified rewards 
  • Make your environment conducive to work 
  • Do not take an exam while you are hungry 
  • Accomplish small chunks of a major goal rather than taking on all or none approach 
  • Focus on successes not failures 
  • Recognize and alter negative self talk 
  • Give yourself time to change 
  • Expect and forgive backsliding 
  • Take a good attitude and enjoy your life 
  • RELAX

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